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by maxerickson
587 days ago
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Flint has had clean water since ~2018 and there are ongoing state and federal efforts to remove all lead from water systems in Michigan (and the rest of the country of course). Is there some specific criteria you have in mind when you say that Flint doesn't have clean water? |
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> a federal judge recently found Flint in civil contempt for failing to meet a deadline to remove all of the city's lead service lines.
> There are an estimated nine million lead service lines in need of replacement across the U.S.
- https://www.npr.org/2024/04/25/1247095068/its-been-10-years-...
> Flint residents have yet to see a penny of the $625 million class-action settlement that came from a lawsuit against the state
- https://eu.freep.com/story/news/local/2024/04/25/flint-water...
And it's not just Flint, like I said:
> CR and the Guardian selected 120 people from around the US, out of a pool of more than 6,000 volunteers, to test for arsenic, lead, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), and other contaminants. The samples came from water systems that together service more than 19 million people.
> A total of 118 of the 120 samples had concerning levels of PFAS or arsenic above CR’s recommended maximum, or detectable amounts of lead.
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/31/americas-tap...
Specific criteria you ask: How about just living up to our own standards, for a start. Holding polluters and enablers accountable.
Then we can get those standards up to where other, more densely populated, less wealthy countries already have them.